The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of parents' social-emotional competency on adolescents' sense of community, and to analyze and reveal the structural relationship of direct and indirect effects by mediation of parent-child relationship and communication variables between parents and children.
To achieve this purpose, data from the 5th year of the elementary school panel (2nd year of middle school) of the Busan Longitudinal Study of Education (BELS) were used, and data were analyzed for 2,965 parents of students each with missing values removed. Before verifying the structural relationship between variables, convergent and discriminant validity were analyzed for factor loadings through confirmatory factor analysis. In the process of examining structural relationships, bootstrapping was used for parameter estimation and standard error estimation of indirect effects, and phantom variables were applied and analyzed to identify individual indirect effects.
The analysis results are as follows.
First, it was found that the path that directly affects the community spirit of adolescent children was significant for parents' social-emotional competency. Second, the social-emotional competency of parents significantly affects the sense of community of adolescent children indirectly through parent-child communication or parent-child relationship or sequentially through parent-child communication and parent-child relationship. appeared to be Specifically, it was confirmed that the sense of community of adolescent children was influenced by the parent-child relationship, and it was also found that the communication between parents and children was also affected. . In addition, the sequential mediating effect of parent-child communication and parent-child relationship was more significant than the direct effect in the relationship between parents' social emotional competency and youth community spirit.
Through this study, it was confirmed that the social-emotional competency of parents at home had a more significant effect when it mediated parent-child communication and parent-child relationship than the direct effect on the sense of community of adolescent children.